Headteacher: Mr R Stead Tel: 01823 400439

New email: office@milvertonprimary.co.uk www.milvertonprimary.co.uk

School and Office Opening Hours

School - 8.45am - 3.15pm Office - 8.30am - 4pm Morning club - 8am

Sports clubs 3.15pm –4.30pm

Toasties 3.15pm –4.30/5.45pm

Dear Parents and Carers, It has been a super first half term of the school year. Our school vision statement says ‘Together, we are building a community of creative, successful lifelong learners’ and this half term the children have shown great engagement in learning and creative activities through our quest ‘Animal Magic’. I hope you have an enjoyable half term break. Mr R Stead

Friday Flyer

21st October 2016—Issue No. 7

Diary Dates

Half Term Break Mon 24th—Fri 28th October

Tempest Photos Thursday 3rd November

If you would like photos with any pre-school siblings, please come to

the school hall for 8.30am

Year 5 Kilve Trip Parents’ Evening at 6pm

Wednesday 9th November

Parents’ Evenings Thursday 10th November 5—7.30pm Tuesday 15th November 3.30—6pm

Class 2 Trip to Taunton Museum Tuesday 15th November

Class 3 & 4 Trip to Taunton Museum

Friday 18th November

Year 5 ‘Play in a Day’ at Taunton School

Wednesday 23rd November

Year 2 Sports Festival at Kingsmead Wednesday 23rd November

Animal Themed Non-Uniform Day MSA Christmas Fair

Friday 2nd December

Year 1, 2 & 3 Flu Vaccinations Tuesday 6th December

Sharing Assembly Dates Class 2: Friday 4th November Class 1: Friday 11th November Class R: Friday 18th November Class 3: Friday 25th November Class 5 & 6: Curriculum Evening Thursday 24th November 6.30pm

OUTSTANDING LEARNERS OF THE WEEK

Class R Halia for finding so many different ways to travel in PE this week. Great ideas!

Class 1 Bobbi for consistently being kind and helpful to everybody and for working hard.

Class 2 Ashton for great effort during guided reading and being able to identify nouns, verbs and adjectives in the story.

Class 3 Isla and Freya S for their terrific care and attention to detail in creating their ‘Heather Galler’ style animal paintings.

Class 4 The whole of Class 4 for a brilliant sharing assembly.

Class 5 Sol for his outstanding improvement in presentation and Connie for her excellent ‘defeat the monster’ story.

Class 6 Tabitha for her really good mental arithmetic skills in Maths this week.

On Friday 14th October, the whole school enjoyed a second Eco Day of the week. The children took part in four activi-ties in their house groups looking at differ-ent aspects of biodiversity, which links with our Animal Magic quest work. Key Stage 2 classes looked at the life cycle of bees, went on a mini beast hunt, made bird feeders and learnt about compost. Key Stage 1 made compost bins, made leaf prints, hunted for different species of plants and insects and played bug bingo! We all had a great day and are looking forward to seeing how the biodiversity of the school grounds continues as Autumn takes hold! Mrs K Smith

We would like to remind you that from January 2017 the school office will no longer be accepting cash or cheques (except for uniform) and

other payments must be done through ParentmailX. If you have

any issues using this method please contact Marian in the office.

Sports Fixtures Cross Country

Monday 14th November

Sportshall Athletics at King’s Thursday 17th November

Boys’ Football Monday 21st November

Badminton Wednesday 23rd November

CLASS 6 FOOTBALL On Monday 17th October the Year 6 boys’ football team went to play our first tournament of the year. We played four games and the results are in the table below.

Thank you for all the parents for taking us and supporting us. Big thanks to Mr Stead for organising a team for the event. We had a great time and can’t wait for the next one . by Brendan and James, Class 6.

Milverton 1 1 North Town

Milverton 3 0 Bishops Henderson

Milverton 1 0 Beach Grove

Milverton 2 3 Bishops Hull

Class 6 sports festival at kingsmead On Wednesday 19th October class 6 went to a sports

festival at Kingsmead. We did many fun activities which

included: Ultimate Frisbee, Bench ball and tug of war!

We were split into our houses and the groups were

called: Doughnuts, Unicorns and Hodgehogs! All the

groups went to different activities. Bench ball was the

favourite!!! They changed the rules from how we nor-

mally play but we soon got the hang of it. Ultimate Fris-

bee improved our skills on how to throw a Frisbee.

Thank you to all of the sports leaders and adults who

organised this wonderful event! by Florence and Charlotte, Class 6.

House Flag Design Competition

The School Council are running a competi-

tion for the children to design a flag each

for our four school houses: Horse Chest-

nut, London Plane, Cork Oak and Blue Ce-

dar. So get your thinking caps on and get creative! Please

hand in your design to the school office or Mrs Calnon.

The School Council will be

running a cake sale on Friday

4th November after school.

This is to raise money to cre-

ate a ‘quiet area’ in the play-

ground. We would love donations of cakes please! If

you can donate, please bring cakes in to the school

kitchen on the Friday of the sale. Thank you!